rty-Ninth and Fortieth Congresses.--333, 437, 527, 528, 536.

HENRY T. BLOW was born in Southampton county, Virginia, July 15, 1817.
In 1830 he removed to Missouri, and goon after graduated at the St.
Louis University. He engaged extensively in the drug and lead
business. He served four years in the Senate of Missouri. In 1861 he
was appointed by President Lincoln Minister to Venezuela, but resigned
the position before the expiration of a year. In 1862 he was elected a
Representative from Missouri to the Thirty-Eighth Congress, and was
re-elected to the Thirty-Ninth. He was succeeded in the Fortieth
Congress by Carman A. Newcomb.

GEORGE S. BOUTWELL was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, January 28,
1818, and removed to Groton in 1835. He was engaged in mercantile
business as clerk and proprietor for several years, and subsequently
entered the profession of the law. From 1842 to 1850 he was a member
of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1849 and 1850 he was
Bank Commissioner. In 1851 he was elected Governor of Massachusetts,
and served two terms. He was a member of the Massachusetts
Constitutional Convention of 1853. He was eleven years a member and
Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, and ten years a
member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College. He was appointed
Commissioner of the Internal Revenue, in July, 1862, and organized the
Revenue system. In 1863 he took his seat as a Representative in
Congress from Massachusetts, and was re-elected to the Thirty-Ninth
and Fortieth Congresses. He is the author of a "Manual of the School
System, and School Laws of Massachusetts," "Educational Topics and
Institutions," "A Manual of the Revenue System," and a volume just
published, entitled "Speeches on Reconstruction."--31, 91, 442, 475,
526, 528, 536, 553.

_BENJAMIN M. BOYER_ was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania,
January 22, 1823. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, and
adopted the profession of law. In 1848 he was elected District
Attorney for the county of Montgomery. In 1864 he was elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was
re-elected to the Fortieth Congress.--54, 438.

ALLEN A. BRADFORD was born in Friendship, Maine, July 23, 1815. In
1841 he emigrated to Missouri, where he was admitted to the bar in
1843. He held the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court of Atchinson
County, and subsequently removed to Iowa, where he was appointed